ribA2 Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1415 · MTBC0 mtbc0_001515 · 425 aa · 1599741–1601018 (+) · RefSeq NP_215931.1

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)bifunctional riboflavin biosynthesis GTP cyclohydrolase II/3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotationbifunctional 3%2C4-dihydroxy-2-butanone-4-phosphate synthase/GTP cyclohydrolase II
Revised (this work)Bifunctional 3%2C4-dihydroxy-2-butanone-4-phosphate synthase/GTP cyclohydrolase II. Pfam: DHBP_synthase (PF00926.25), GTP_cyclohydro2 (PF00925.26).

Auto-curated: this verdict and function were generated by rules from PGAP + Pfam + Foldseek and have not been hand-reviewed.

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WHF1 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameRiboflavin biosynthesis protein RibBA [Includes: 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase
EC (curated) EC 3.5.4.25, EC 4.1.99.12
Curated functionCatalyzes the conversion of D-ribulose 5-phosphate to formate and 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate..; FUNCTION: Catalyzes the conversion of GTP to 2,5-diamino-6-ribosylamino-4(3H)-pyrimidinone 5'-phosphate (DARP), formate and pyrophosphate.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category H Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Preferred nameribBA
eggNOG descriptionCatalyzes the conversion of D-ribulose 5-phosphate to formate and 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate
Orthologous groupCOG0108
EC number EC 3.5.4.25, EC 4.1.99.12
KEGG orthology K14652
KEGG pathways map00740, map00790, map01100, map01110
KEGG modules M00125, M00840
Gene Ontology (4) GO:0005575, GO:0005576, GO:0008150, GO:0040007

Orthology-based transfer (eggNOG 5.0.2, diamond). EC/KO/GO/CAZy are computed annotations, not manual curation; cross-check against the primary literature before treating a specific reaction as established.

Conservation & selection (intra-MTBC, 145 209 strains)

pN/pS 0.507 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 2 synonymous, 3 missense, 0 nonsense, 0 frameshift

pN/pS from segregating SNPs (singletons removed) normalised by possible sites. Low pN/pS = purifying selection (a strong signal that a "hypothetical" is a real, constrained gene). A high pN/pS is ambiguous: relaxed constraint or positive selection (drug resistance, antigenic variation) inflate it; e.g. rpoB/katG/pncA score high here for resistance, not loss of function. A clonal disruption (one allele over a clade) suggests lineage pseudogenisation; a convergent one (many independent alleles) is typical of resistance loss-of-function.

Domains (Pfam, hmmscan --cut_ga)

PfamAccessioni-EvalueResiduesDescription
DHBP_synthasePF00926.25 1.9e-848–201 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase
GTP_cyclohydro2PF00925.26 1.3e-73210–381 GTP cyclohydrolase II

Functional interaction network (STRING v12, guilt-by-association)

Closest characterised functional partner: ribH (6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine synthase), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 1000 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1416 ribH 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine synthase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:881 cooccurence:774 coexpression:986 database:900 textmining:885
Rv1412 ribC riboflavin synthase 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:505 fusion:896 cooccurence:774 coexpression:985 textmining:418
Rv1409 ribG bifunctional riboflavin biosynthesis diaminohydroxyphosphoribosylaminopyrimidine deaminase/5-amino-6-(5-phosphoribosylamino) uracil reductas 999 1000 ctx neighborhood:544 fusion:519 cooccurence:772 coexpression:980 experimental:759 database:900 textmining:812
Rv1940 ribA1 riboflavin biosynthesis protein RibA 943 921 database:900
Rv3609c folE GTP cyclohydrolase I 964 916 database:900 textmining:593
Rv3109 moaA1 cyclic pyranopterin monophosphate synthase 907 904 database:900
Rv0869c moaA2 molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis protein MoaA 907 904 database:900
Rv1417 membrane protein 902 902 ctx neighborhood:881
Rv2445c ndkA nucleoside diphosphate kinase 904 899 database:800
Rv2583c relA bifunctional (p)ppGpp synthase/hydrolase RelA 841 835 database:800
Rv1418 lprH lipoprotein LprH 826 827 ctx neighborhood:824
Rv3645 transmembrane protein 814 814 database:800
Rv1625c cya adenylate cyclase 811 812 database:800
Rv1320c adenylate cyclase 810 811 database:800
Rv1264 adenylyl cyclase 810 811 database:800

STRING combines evidence channels (neighborhood, fusion, cooccurrence, coexpression, experimental, database, text-mining) into a 0–1000 score. The ctx badge marks edges carried by the genomic-context channels (conserved neighborhood, fusion, phylogenetic co-occurrence), which are independent of orthology and structure and the strongest signal for an unknown gene. The no text-mining column recomputes the score from data alone, so a link that does not depend on the literature is visible. Association is a function hypothesis, not proof: corroborate with the operon context and the primary literature before assigning a function.

Evidence

  • Legacy H37Rv annotation: bifunctional riboflavin biosynthesis GTP cyclohydrolase II/3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase
  • MTBC0 PGAP product: bifunctional 3%2C4-dihydroxy-2-butanone-4-phosphate synthase/GTP cyclohydrolase II
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): DHBP_synthase PF00926.25 (E=2e-84), GTP_cyclohydro2 PF00925.26 (E=1e-73)
  • (auto-curated by rules from PGAP + Pfam + Foldseek; not hand-reviewed)

Sources

  • Ancestral sequence & coordinates: Harrison LB et al. (2024), An imputed ancestral reference genome for the MTBC, doi:10.1101/2023.09.07.556366
  • Product annotation: NCBI PGAP on MTBC0; legacy from H37Rv NC_000962.3 (RefSeq NP_215931.1)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — DHBP_synthase (PF00926.25), GTP_cyclohydro2 (PF00925.26)
  • Sequence-level signal: ESM Atlas (EvolutionaryScale × BioHub) — exploratory
  • Controlled vocabulary: eggNOG-mapper 2.1.12 (Cantalapiedra et al. 2021, doi:10.1093/molbev/msab293), eggNOG 5.0 DB (Huerta-Cepas et al. 2019) — OG COG0108
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WHF1 (SwissProt, reviewed; Evidence at protein level)
  • Intra-MTBC selection: pN/pS and disruption from SPDI variants of 145 209 MTBC strains (this work, local collection vs H37Rv NC_000962.3)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 130 functional partner(s); context anchor ribH
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>mtbc0_001515|Rv1415|ribA2
MTRLDSVERAVADIAAGKAVIVIDDEDRENEGDLIFAAEKATPEMVAFMVRYTSGYLCVPLDGAICDRLGLLPMYAVNQDKHGTAYTVTVDARNGIGTGISASDRATTMRLLADPTSVADDFTRPGHVVPLRAKDGGVLRRPGHTEAAVDLARMAGLQPAGAICEIVSQKDEGSMAHTDELRVFADEHGLALITIADLIEWRRKHEKHIERVAEARIPTRHGEFRAIGYTSIYEDVEHVALVRGEIAGPNADGDDVLVRVHSECLTGDVFGSRRCDCGPQLDAALAMVAREGRGVVLYMRGHEGRGIGLMHKLQAYQLQDAGADTVDANLKLGLPADARDYGIGAQILVDLGVRSMRLLTNNPAKRVGLDGYGLHIIERVPLPVRANAENIRYLMTKRDKLGHDLAGLDDFHESVHLPGEFGGAL